Ex dono Collegii ST M Magdalenæ Oxoniensis

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Beaufort, who founded a chantry, had directed his executors to furnish his chapel with handsome and necessary ornaments; as vestments for festivals, a gilded cross, his images of the Salutation, to wit, the blessed Virgin, and holy Gabriel bearing the urn and lily; with a cup and certain utensils of gold. Ile had enriched the altar by a bequest of a service of gilded plate, and a pair of silver candlesticks, which stood on holidays in his oratory for daily use; and of two of his missals and his larger breviary, without notes, which had formerly belonged to the bishop of Bath, to remain to it for ever, and to be used in no other place. He had ordained, besides a yearly obit to be solemnized in the church, that three masses should be celebrated daily for his soul, by three of the monks in the

f Ledger-book, N° 1. f. 77. "Ordinatio Cantarie Dňi Henrici "cardinalis, &c." seems an extract of his will. See Nichols, f.84. The prior and convent oblige themselves to observe the injunc tions in his will, 1460.

Beaufort bequeathed to his church divers rich vestments, his bona præcipua, jewels and precious ornaments; some for the distinct use of the prior. See his Will.

Of "a parcel" of gold and silver, received of his executors, to make the great shrine of St. Swythyn's, see an account, Ledgerbook I. fol. 76. Winton cathedral.

Shrines were often made curiously of filigraine workmanship. One Peter, a Roman, made the shrine of Edward the Confessor.

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chapel. Wykeham had likewise made a provision for masses to be said in the chapel of the Virgin Mary.

The Ledger-book of the cathedral, from which Bishop Lowth has taken his account of Wykeham's chantry, disappointed my hope of finding in it particular information concerning the chapel of St. Mary Magdalen; which is mentioned, as far as I have been able to discover, only in the will of Waynflete. It is probable he had furnished it in his lifetime with missals, copes, and other requisites; that the three niches, divided by tiers of open arches, and yet remaining in the inside at the east end, were filled with the images of the patron-saint, and St. Peter and St. Paul, as seen on the seal of his hall and college, as well as elsewhere; and also that many of the masses

Ledger-book I. fol. 17.

"De reparatione eccl ̋ie Swithini per W. Wykḥam fact. 1404." The agreement of the prior and convent to find scaffolding, sabulum, &c.

"De Cantaria W. Wykham. Masses in capella, in qua elegit

suam sepulturam infra eccles." Dated 16th Aug. 1404.

"Relaxatio corrodii de Hamela in the Rye," follows fol. 22. "dentura inter priorem et conv. Winton, et executores testamenti "W. Wykham super receptis ab iisdem.